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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!csnews!coopnews.coop.net!frii.com!deimos.frii.com!gnat From: gnat@frii.com (Nathan Torkington) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: portmapper forking indefinitely Date: 21 May 1996 17:05:54 GMT Organization: Interchangeable Antipodeans, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4nst5i$98j@europa.frii.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deimos.frii.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] We just had a very weird problem, which took out our servers for too long. The RPC portmapper would not start up correctly on our NIS master, giving messages like: May 21 10:09:58 host portmap[83]: CALLIT (prog 100004): fork: Resource temporarily unavailable It seemed to be starting up, then forking madly. We ended up rebooting it and some of the machines that depended on it, and eventually things began working again. We don't know what caused it to stop nor what could have caused it to start again. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated ... Nat